On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 14:39 +0100, Pedro
Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, Paul Davis wrote:
i notice that SDLmm has not had a commit in
nearly a year, and appears
to have been named under a similar belief as your own.
Is it about belief? There is something about that in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Article 18: "Everyone has the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion". I would also add the GUI
toolkit and frameworks.
Maybe you know the text of a Law, or a sacred text source of the absolute
truth, where it is stated that a library name ending in "mm" must not be
used by those not belonging to the congregation of true believers, under
pain of heresy ?
I'm glad that we finally see someone fighting for humanistic ideals, for
freedom of thought, speech and religion, truth and justice here, in the
dark pits of ignorance and isolationism. You, Pedro, are a true champion
of humankind!
Expectations that follow from conventions are a lie, breaking them is
true enlightened justice and who disagrees clearly doesn't like Qt for
inhuman reasons.
I've seen the movie. A Monty Python's masterpice.
(The Stoning Place. A LAD OFFICIAL stands there, with some helpers,
confronting the potential stonee, PEDRO. A large crowd watches. 90% are
women in beards. Around there are a few Roman troops.)
Official: Pedro, developer of Qt based applications ...
Pedro: Do I say "Yes"?
Official's Helper: Yes.
Pedro: Yes.
Official: You have been found guilty by the elders of the town of uttering
the name of the library and so as a blasphemer you are to be stoned to
death.
Pedro: Look, I'd had a lovely supper and all I said was, "Let's release this
little library as 'aseqmm'".
Official: Blasphemy! He's said it again.
Pedro: Look. I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "aseqmm!"
(voices) He said it again.
Official: (to Pedro) You're only making it worse for yourself.
(...)
At the end of the scene, several women carry a huge rock and drop it on the
Official. Everybody claps.